...made to Russify the European peoples of the empire, to stretch, in Seton- Watson's evocative phrase, 'the short, tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the 76 empire'.1 Finland was more closely incorporated into the central administration, losing the privilege...

...were English' and so on. While these new identifications were often tenuous, they were the means of 'stretching the short, tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire'. Anderson reminds us that such 'official nationalism' (ie a nationalism forged by rulers) was 'an anticipatory...

...'official nationalism' — an enterprise which combined dynasticism and nation-ness to expand or stretch 'the short, tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire' (Anderson 1991, p. 86). On a similar note, David Cannadine's detailed study, 'The British Monarchy,...

...population into a centralized, unified, and homogeneous entity. In this respect, Anderson's metaphor of "stretching the short, tight, skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire" (1990, 82) is pertinent. This suggests the painstaking effort required to engineer the difficult correspondence...

...nationalisms," a concept roughly analogous to our notion of the totem, "can best be understood as a means ... for stretching the short, tight, skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire."67 That metaphor, offered in the context of an argument that printed texts transmit nationalist...

...legitimate their imperial dynasties in the eyes of their domestic and colonial publics, in his words, "stretching the short, tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire."29 Anderson terms this state strategy "official nationalism." I argue that avant-garde movements...

...nationalism. " 'Official nationalisms,' " writes Benedict Anderson, "can best be understood as a means of combining naturalization with retention of dynastic...of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire" (1991: 86). According to Anderson, official nationalisms seek to weld two opposing political orders,...

...effectively and self-confidently pursued through policies of Russification, what Anderson (1991) describes as 'stretching the short, tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire' (p. 86). Such policies were the work of states of course, and indeed the state was assigned a particular...

...integrated and underinstitutionalized Tsarist state to stretch in Benedict Anderson's neat formulation - "the short. tight skin of the nation over the gigantic body of the empire" (p. 84l'. 1 The existence of Russia in its present borders is questioned. Gorbachev. who perhaps did...